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Please make me list of icons you need, i am 2d Artist. Working in Corel. Icons is kinda ok for me to do (i wont promise too much on this stage, but if i have time i can help much more tha icons).
Great! There are a bunch of types of icons:
1. Units: In 1.5.2 deliverator has added a new set of consistent icons, and I added a few for the great people units in 1.5.4. So I think the unit icons are great now.
2. Tech: the current tech icons are good, although some of the images are indistinct at a 32x32 size. Many of them look like some small dark object on an orange background. If you find some you would like to improve, that would be OK.
3. Promotions: Lord Tirian had volunteered to do a consistent set of promotion icons. I am not sure if he started yet. There are a few where the level 2 icon is just a copy of the level 1 icon, so this could definitely use some work.
4. Religion: Some work would be helpful. The main thing is to put the imperial five point star icon and the landsraad yellow/red/black icon into gamefonts. I am not sure if you have worked with the gamefonts files. It is a big pain. I have done it successfully before, but I failed this time. That would be one small project.
5. Buildings. We have a real gap here, and we could really use some help. We can divide this into three parts:
5a. Basic buildings. I think the building art is OK, but a lot of the building icons are poor. I have tried to select the best ones out of what we have, but a lot of them could be redone. If you could help here, that would be great.
5b. Wonders. We plan to redesign the wonders altogether at some point. I wouldn't bother making icons yet.
5c. Religion buildings. First, we need to pick better building art. Then we need the icons. The icons are a little tricky to build. You need to overlay a small version of the religion icon itself onto the building icon. A good project would be to sort out the building art first, then make new icons.
In summary, one easy project is (4); a small important project is (5a); and a larger important project is (5c). Any help you could give would be great!